Associations to the word «Jiffy»

JIFFY, noun. (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time.

JIFFY, noun. (computing) A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer; historically, and by convention, 0.01 seconds, but some operating systems use other values.

JIFFY, noun. (electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second)

JIFFY, noun. (physics) The time taken for light to travel one centimetre in a vacuum (sometimes one foot, or sometimes the width of a nucleon)

JIFFY BAG, noun. A thick padded envelope for sending objects which could be damaged in normal envelopes.

JIFFY BAGS, noun. Plural of Jiffy bag

JIFFY, noun. A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash".